Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] for a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 2 | St Peter walked along silently for a long distance . |
| 3 | Well I think there were niggling little points in all the quarries , the workforce certainly has n't been happy up in for a long time . |
| 4 | It means so much to the supporters in the Oxford area , it means so much to the club , I think you 've really got to be up here for a long time to realise just how much it does mean to everybody in this area . |
| 5 | It was a leafy place ; professional people , merchants , senior civil servants had lived around here for a long time . |